George Mamos                                                          Born  1953, New York                      

I have always believed in fairness, the goodness in all people, balance, and most of all the beauty of nature and life, to be in touch with all living creatures. Guess that is why I studied both art and law. After four years of formal Art training in college I studied law at New York Law School. Although I have been a practicing attorney for some 15 years, I have never waivered from painting as I have always burned with the passion and need to paint. I am strong on the belief that everyone should view life through the eyes of an artist, and to make a connection with our planet as a whole.

Painting is the rhetoric of ideas. It is the examination of our world around us and our part in it. (Our one and only world) It is the exploration of ones own life and his experiences through it. The real artist considers his work as a way of talking to society and others in it. It usually takes the form of a gift. Sometimes ridiculed always inventive. He is demonstrating to the world his idea of life. True art goes deeper than the surface. It affects the viewers subliminal thought often without the viewer even knowing it. The true artist must first embrace his emotional passion which is his primitive side, it is his heart and his feelings, and then it must be supported and maintained by his constructive mind, the tools and techniques he has developed.. An artist is first a person of great imagination and then a great manager of seasoned technique. The technique of painting is not easy to master, and there is no end to the study of it, but more significant than the study of technique is the lifelong study of oneself and all human life in our shrinking world. This is even harder to master than the technique

During my earlier years I spent most of my life growing up some 200 feet from the Atlantic Ocean which left me in awe of its beauty and of its vastness and immense powers. I spent most of my summers in New Hampsire where I invested most of my time exploring, drawing and studying the wilderness and wildlife of the White Mountains. My interest in wildlife reflects my desire to send a message about the preservation of our natural world and all its precious inhabitants. Somehow we must heighten the awareness of all of the people of the world, most of whom are occupied with self survival and far removed from the essence of our slowly dying natural planet. I too have been guilty of this neglect, no one is immune or to blame as it is inherent in most all societies throughout the world today. That is what makes it so much more difficult and important.

During the 1980's and 90's I supported my wife and 4 children by practicing law and advocating support of our planet's natural habitat, while painting in my spare time. Recently I began painting nearly full time and believe I can be categorized as a contemporary American wildlife artist. Some of my early influences were John Singer Sargent, Maxfield Parrish , followed more recently by Robert Bateman and Andrew Wyeth.

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